Washington Post: Bill to mark sex offender passports raises ire of criminal justice advocacy group

[FAC COMMENTS INSERTED IN CAPS AND BRACKETED] A criminal justice advocacy group is prepared to sue the federal government if President Obama signs into law a measure requiring child-sex offenders to be identified as such on their passports — a move they say is as hypocritical for a president pushing for broad criminal justice reform. [THIS IS THE LAWSUIT THAT

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STOP International Megan's Law

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eMail RE: IML

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 1:00 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Rep Smith’s new legacy. presenting a bill that threatens the physical well being of Innocent Americans as they travel Internationally   Congratulations representative Smith. Your bill HR 515 and its associated angel watch program has the unique position of being a tool

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L.A. Times Editorial: Do sex offenders deserve a scarlet letter on their passport?

After rousing themselves from the 30-plus-year bad trip that was the war on drugs — or rather, the war on drug users — many Americans in and out of elected office looked around for someone else to persecute. Someone, somewhere, must be so depraved and hateful that liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans could join in common cause to vilify

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